most children will become very talkative
as they develop language skills in early
childhood some will even repeat certain
syllables and words as they speak what
does this mean that they have a
stuttering problem hi I’m Pamela with
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
to Lisa massero a speech-language
pathologist at the Montreal Children’s
Hospital about children with stuttering
and what they can do to overcome it can
you begin by introducing yourself my
name is Lisa massero I’m a
speech-language pathologist at the
Montreal Children’s Hospital I’ve been
working with children who have various
communication problems for about 20
years including kids who stutter what
are the signs and symptoms of stuttering
many young children go through a period
of what we call normal non fluency that
means times where they might repeat a
word like mummy mummy can I have that
ice cream or where they might put in
some filler words like um I don’t know
or where they might start a sentence and
started a second time revise it until
they get the exact sentence they would
like to say that is really typical of
the young child and they tend to outgrow
that fairly fairly soon however there’s
another group of children about 25% of
preschoolers who go through a period of
what we can call real stuttering
and real stuttering looks different
because kids will repeat parts of words
so why they’re a sound or syllable so
they might go I want to go outside or
they might stretch out a sound like
mommy or they might get stuck on a sound
like that’s my toy so those are real
signs of real stuttering what causes
stuttering I don’t think we have the
answer yet as to the cause of stuttering
but we have some pretty good leads it’s
really important to note that stuttering
is not an emotional or psychological
problem it’s caused by a difficulty and
executing motor movements while you’re
talking many people who stutter have a
close relative who either stuttered when
they were younger or continued to
stutter as an adult
the thing is though heredity or genetics
doesn’t explain all the reasons why
people stutter probably a good portion
is related to the in
environment some children just seem to
be more vulnerable to everyday things
that we all experience in our
environment perhaps certain life events
like the birth of a new child or the
move to a new city or perhaps a very
hectic lifestyle in the family where
there’s lots of appointments and they’re
moving around frequently from one
activity to the other and maybe there’s
something within the child himself or
herself that has to do with her
temperament or his temperament that
makes them more susceptible to
developing stuttering it’s most likely a
combination of many factors that will
eventually cause stuttering and a child
who seems predisposed or more vulnerable
to developing stuttering what percentage
of children are affected by the speech
impediment very young children let’s say
under the age of five there’s about five
percent of children who stutter this
percentage decreases over time to in the
school-age population to about one to
two percent and to about one percent in
the adult population what advice do you
have for a parent who thinks that his or
her child might be centering probably
the first thing and the best thing I can
do is observe what’s happening to sort
of take a mental note of whether it’s
fluctuating over time if it’s cyclical
if it happens every day what situations
seem to increase the amount of
stuttering then once they’ve sort of got
a handle on that and at the same time
they really need to focus on what their
child is saying and not how they’re
saying it so they have to be careful not
to give what they think are helpful
hands like slow down take a deep breath
think before you speak or finish their
sentences because those help and hints
in fact don’t help and may even increase
stuttering lines of long run
once they’ve noticed that stuttering has
existed for more than six months we’d
really suggest that they go and consult
a speech-language pathologist and have
their child assess some other good
general suggestions for families well
they’re waiting it out there was six
months and seeing if it’s just
transitory or if it’s the child’s going
to start stuttering all on their own
they can make sure that their child has
some well-established routines for
example they should have a routine
bedtime routine meal time they should
also take care to have consistent and
fair discipline as well children who are
stuttering need lots of rest can you
explain how stuttering is treated before
we get into the therapy in a very young
child we might adopt an approach where
to wait and see a wait and observe but
actively observe giving the parents some
tools about what to observe and giving
them some some attitudes and some
behaviors that they can use that will
help their child be more fluent after
three years of age we can probably start
using a more indirect approach but
working with the child so we might teach
the family the parents how to model a
different kind of fluent speech that
their child will imitate over time as
the child gets a bit older let’s say
around four and a half we can use more
direct methods where we really try to
shape the fluency or tint shape that
really smooth-talking so the child will
talk more smoothly more often and
eliminate their stuttering behavior as
people get older and stuttering becomes
more ingrained the techniques become
more and more direct so that people
learn how to control their stuttering
better and also they probably let’s talk
about school-aged children and
adolescents or adults need to start
working out on their own feelings and
attitudes around stuttering which
develop as a person becomes older thank
you very much thank you the pleasure’s
all mine
as they develop language skills in early
childhood some will even repeat certain
syllables and words as they speak what
does this mean that they have a
stuttering problem hi I’m Pamela with
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
to Lisa massero a speech-language
pathologist at the Montreal Children’s
Hospital about children with stuttering
and what they can do to overcome it can
you begin by introducing yourself my
name is Lisa massero I’m a
speech-language pathologist at the
Montreal Children’s Hospital I’ve been
working with children who have various
communication problems for about 20
years including kids who stutter what
are the signs and symptoms of stuttering
many young children go through a period
of what we call normal non fluency that
means times where they might repeat a
word like mummy mummy can I have that
ice cream or where they might put in
some filler words like um I don’t know
or where they might start a sentence and
started a second time revise it until
they get the exact sentence they would
like to say that is really typical of
the young child and they tend to outgrow
that fairly fairly soon however there’s
another group of children about 25% of
preschoolers who go through a period of
what we can call real stuttering
and real stuttering looks different
because kids will repeat parts of words
so why they’re a sound or syllable so
they might go I want to go outside or
they might stretch out a sound like
mommy or they might get stuck on a sound
like that’s my toy so those are real
signs of real stuttering what causes
stuttering I don’t think we have the
answer yet as to the cause of stuttering
but we have some pretty good leads it’s
really important to note that stuttering
is not an emotional or psychological
problem it’s caused by a difficulty and
executing motor movements while you’re
talking many people who stutter have a
close relative who either stuttered when
they were younger or continued to
stutter as an adult
the thing is though heredity or genetics
doesn’t explain all the reasons why
people stutter probably a good portion
is related to the in
environment some children just seem to
be more vulnerable to everyday things
that we all experience in our
environment perhaps certain life events
like the birth of a new child or the
move to a new city or perhaps a very
hectic lifestyle in the family where
there’s lots of appointments and they’re
moving around frequently from one
activity to the other and maybe there’s
something within the child himself or
herself that has to do with her
temperament or his temperament that
makes them more susceptible to
developing stuttering it’s most likely a
combination of many factors that will
eventually cause stuttering and a child
who seems predisposed or more vulnerable
to developing stuttering what percentage
of children are affected by the speech
impediment very young children let’s say
under the age of five there’s about five
percent of children who stutter this
percentage decreases over time to in the
school-age population to about one to
two percent and to about one percent in
the adult population what advice do you
have for a parent who thinks that his or
her child might be centering probably
the first thing and the best thing I can
do is observe what’s happening to sort
of take a mental note of whether it’s
fluctuating over time if it’s cyclical
if it happens every day what situations
seem to increase the amount of
stuttering then once they’ve sort of got
a handle on that and at the same time
they really need to focus on what their
child is saying and not how they’re
saying it so they have to be careful not
to give what they think are helpful
hands like slow down take a deep breath
think before you speak or finish their
sentences because those help and hints
in fact don’t help and may even increase
stuttering lines of long run
once they’ve noticed that stuttering has
existed for more than six months we’d
really suggest that they go and consult
a speech-language pathologist and have
their child assess some other good
general suggestions for families well
they’re waiting it out there was six
months and seeing if it’s just
transitory or if it’s the child’s going
to start stuttering all on their own
they can make sure that their child has
some well-established routines for
example they should have a routine
bedtime routine meal time they should
also take care to have consistent and
fair discipline as well children who are
stuttering need lots of rest can you
explain how stuttering is treated before
we get into the therapy in a very young
child we might adopt an approach where
to wait and see a wait and observe but
actively observe giving the parents some
tools about what to observe and giving
them some some attitudes and some
behaviors that they can use that will
help their child be more fluent after
three years of age we can probably start
using a more indirect approach but
working with the child so we might teach
the family the parents how to model a
different kind of fluent speech that
their child will imitate over time as
the child gets a bit older let’s say
around four and a half we can use more
direct methods where we really try to
shape the fluency or tint shape that
really smooth-talking so the child will
talk more smoothly more often and
eliminate their stuttering behavior as
people get older and stuttering becomes
more ingrained the techniques become
more and more direct so that people
learn how to control their stuttering
better and also they probably let’s talk
about school-aged children and
adolescents or adults need to start
working out on their own feelings and
attitudes around stuttering which
develop as a person becomes older thank
you very much thank you the pleasure’s
all mine
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